Two lovebirds in New York City are facing life as jailbirds after they topped off a boozy Saturday night date by stomping a would-be good Samaritan to death in the street.
Quintin Guerrero, 61, was killed when he rushed to aid one of his accused attackers, Tosheba Alford, 20, after she jumped out of a moving cab in front of his Bronx house to escape a beating from her boyfriend. Alford told Police she never raised a hand to the man who tried to help her and insisted she was just trying to stop her boyfriend, Kendall Major, 35, from killing Guerrero.
"He [Major] started punching and kicking the man. I tried to pull Kendall off," Alford told detectives, according to a prosecutor.
Witnesses on the street, including the cabbie who drove the pair to the Bronx, claimed Alford was as responsible as Major for the 1:30 a.m. Saturday beat-down in Mott Haven.
"It was very horrifying to see," said cab driver Angel Ruiz, 47, who called 911 and then helped cops track down the pair.
Major and Alford were arraigned Sunday in Bronx Supreme Court on second-degree murder charges and were ordered held without bail, pending an April 28 grand jury hearing.
The couple, who had spent the evening drinking heavily, were headed to Major's house in the Bronx when they started fighting in the back of Ruiz's livery cab, Smith said.
Witnesses said, Alford jumped out of the moving cab then limped over and sat down on Guerrero's front stoop, prompting the victim to come out of his house and check on her.As Guerrero was asking Alford if she was hurt, Major jumped out of the cab, pummeled Guerrero to the ground and kicked him repeatedly, Alford told her mother.
County Prosecutors scoffed at Major's statement that Guerrero hit him first and told him to "mind your own business."
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